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The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!

Question:Are the members of our armed forces and veterans paying the price for Obama’s economic agenda while we are engaged in two wars and experiencing increased terrorist threats here at home and abroad?

These recent articles reveal the disgusting, but not surprising answer to this question-You Decide:

The Military Pays the Price for Obama’s Agenda!-Posted on ExposeObama.com-By Ben Johnson, FloydReports.com-On August 10, 2010:

“As Barack Obama surrounds himself with smiling teachers grateful he talked vacationing Congressmen into squeezing taxpayers for another multi-billion dollar bailout, Americans should envision another scene: the U.S. soldiers who are paying the price for Obama’s economic agenda.

Last night, on the eve of today’s vote, Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced a new set of “reforms” to the defense budget that “will ensure that our nation is…more fiscally responsible.” (Insert laugh track.) Gatessaid he will close the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, cut “50 generals and admirals and 150 top civilians over the next two years,” and eliminate approximately one-third of current spending on civilian contractors. The secretary admitted a “substantial number” of the 2,800 military and civilian positions will be liquidated, guessing the loss will save $240 million.

While the bailouts proceed apace, next year’s defense budget barely holds pace with inflation. Obama admittedin Washingtonese that he targeted the DoD for reduction, saying his drive to “cut waste and inefficiencies that squander the people’s hard-earned money” is “particularly important when it comes to our national defense.”

The plan will pare pay for military officers who act as “mentors” to others.

The military seem to be the only ones tightening their belts in D.C. The New York Times reports today, “The Labor Department has hired 250 new wage-and-hour investigators” to harass hospitals and nursing homes suspected of not paying employees overtime. The move represents “a staff increase of one-third.”

Yesterday, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac asked Treasury for a combined $3.3 billion, bringing their total bailout to more than $150 billion. And today, Obama announced he’s spending $600 million to prevent foreclosures in five states. Reuters news service notes, “the average homeowner will benefit by about $10,000 over the life of the program, which ends two months after President Barack Obama next faces voters in 2012.” Among those benefiting from the election-year boon is the bellwether state of Ohio.

And of subordinating national defense to his own agenda. The New York Times reportedthat last summer when Gen. Stanley McChrystal wrote Obama that he needed 40,000 troops or we risked failure in Afghanistan, “The president seemed in sticker shock, watching his domestic agenda vanishing in front of him.”

Barack Obama’s selective bailouts and cuts prove the president still sees the military as his personal piggy bank for socialism.”

Defense Business Board Says Military Retirement “Unaffordable”–Posted on MOAA.org-On July 30, 2010:

“On July 22, the Defense Business Board task force recommended that the Secretary of Defense reduce the DoD civilian workforce by more than 111,000, and laid the groundwork for potential future recommendations to cut spending on military retirement, health care, family support, and other programs.

Additionally, the task force recommended drastic reductions in combatant command staffing, hiring freezes, and elimination of organizational duplication. These preliminary recommendations will be followed in October by additional cost-cutting proposals.

For the last year, the Defense Business Board has predicted major problems for the Defense budget as the nation deals with deficit reduction efforts, the economic slowdown, escalating health care and personnel costs, and the potential exit from two wars.

Board members believe that avoiding a looming fiscal crisis will require cutting the Defense budget beyond Secretary Gates’ recently announced target of a $100-billion reduction in “overhead” spending.

The Board’s “Initial Observations”briefing devoted an entire section to costs for military compensation, retirement, health care, veterans affairs, concurrent receipt, commissaries, dependent education, and military family housing. It particularly highlighted costs associated with TRICARE For Life.

A page titled “The ‘Military Retirement’ sacred cow is increasingly unaffordable” cites increases in the number of military retirees since 1980 (as if this weren’t the direct result of decisions by every administration and Congress since the 1950s to induce a large standing career force to protect America and the world) and criticizes the 20-year retirement system (as if the military could have sustained the force over the last 10 years of repeated wartime deployments without it).

Another cites personnel cost growth since 1998 – conveniently overlooking that 1998 was the nadir of two decades of erosion of military pay, retirement, health care, and other benefits and that the resulting retention problems of that era were what sparked Congress to embark on an extended program to fix them.

Unfortunately, the Defense Business Board report is only one of the early shots in what likely will be years of budget battles to reconcile military and other needs with truly daunting deficit projections.”

Note: The following eye opening article and/or blog post reveals a George Soros funded unincorporated association by the name of “Peace and Security Funders Group (PSFG)”, which was established in 1999 and consists of more than 50 private and public foundations that give a portion of their $27 billion in combined assets to leftist organizations that undermine the war on terror in several interrelated ways: (a) by characterizing the United States as an evil, militaristic, oppressive nation that exploits vulverable populations all over the globe; (b) by accusing the U.S. of having provoked, through its unjust policies and actions, the terror attacks against it, and consequently casting those attacks as self-defensive measures taken in response to American transgressions; (c) by depicting America’s military and legislative actions against terror as unjustified, extreme, and immoral-You Decide:

Funding the War Against the War on Terror!–Posted on FrontPageMagazine.com-By: John Perazzo –On October 6, 2006:

Note: The following articles and/or blog posts reveal that the president is an Alinskyite, so steeped in the ideology of the seminal community organizer that he became a top instructor in Alinskyite tactics for other up-and-coming fifth-column radicals, whose single, animating ambition is to overthrow the capitalist social order, which they claim to see as racist, corrupt, exploitative, imperialist, etc. He also frames national security as a distraction from his more important work socializing our economy and thus knows that as long as he is tepidly supportive of a military mission, even one that neither aims to achieve nor can possibly achieve victory over America’s enemies, conservatives will not only overlook the slights, but will anxiously commend him and help the New York Times take the lash to those who won’t-You Decide:

Alinsky Does Afghanistan! (Part I)-Posted on National Review Online- By Andrew C. McCarthy-On December 4, 2010:

Note: The following eye-opening articles and/or blog posts reveal that President Obama can unilaterally use our military to protect ‘national interests’ and that he can also use our Armed Forces to push his and his minion’s progressive agenda. Also included is an eye-opening article and/or blog post and video that reveal that the U.S. is no longer working under Constitutional Law, along with an alarming article and/or blog and PDF book by Mark Levin that reveal the undoing of America by central planning “masterminds” and controlling micro-managers who eventually take away our natural, God-given rights and force us into slavery, killing our ideas, our potential and our dreams-You Decide:

Panetta: Obama Can Unilaterally Use Military to Protect ‘National Interests’!–Posted on CNSNews.com-By Matt Cover-On June 13, 2011:

Note:What follows are just a few of the numerous videos that reveal a Freedom Rally that was held in September of 2010 by families of some soldiers and Marines that have been convicted of crimes that they allegedly committed while attempting to survive in a combat zone and are currently incarcerated in Leavenworth, KS-You Decide:

U.S. GENERALS NOW TAKE ACTION TO WATCH OBAMA: Retired Army, Air Force leaders say ‘government continues down path of destroying America’!–Posted on Tea Party Command Center-By Jake Martinez-On November 26, 2013:

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Congressman Martin Heinrich Regarding My Request For Full-scale Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On August 26, 2012:

Follow-up Letter To NM U.S. Senator Tom Udall Requesting Congressional Investigation Into Allegations Made By Sheriff Arpaio’s Cold Case Posse!-Posted on We The People USA-By Jake Martinez-On April 11, 2012:

NATO Promised Karzai To Put American Soldiers On Trial For Burning Koran “As Soon As Possible.” Will Obama Prevent This From Happening?-Posted on Western Journalism-By JIM CAMPBELL-On February 27, 2012:

Oath Keepers Receives Tip of National Guard Unit Stand-Down, Refusing to Answer Questionnaire Asking if They Would Use Lethal Force Against the American People!–Posted on Oath Keepers-By Paul Lowe-On December 8, 2011: